@Ponderer983 Of course I am the same person and it’s not that I don’t talk to my friends and family about my feelings towards issues. I do. However, I have a very close family and most of my socializing is done with them. I am ‘single’ mother and stay at home to look after my son, so I don’t have a workplace to socialize through or a partner to discuss my innermost thoughts with. To some degree Fluther is pseudo-social life for me. I don’t see the necessity in having all friends and family permeate every aspect of one’s life.
Furthermore, in the early days of my Fluthering I shouted about how fabulous this site was and introduced a couple of people to it. They had a look but weren’t really interested in the site. This is further compounded by the fact that when I do, in real life situations start to talk about some of the things I answer questions about on Fluther, family and friends just aren’t really interested that much.
Since then I have realised that actually it’s a bonus that none of my family or friends are on Fluther any more, because I can freely express things that occasionally I wouldn’t choose to express to them…purely out of respect for their beliefs and interests. However, I don’t write anything on Fluther that I wouldn’t talk to someone about if the subject or issue came up.
So…my real life friends are just as real as my friends on Fluther, who are incidentally very real for me. They are simply two different groups of people with different interests. I don’t see a problem with this at all.